EPMA Essbase vs. Classic Essbase | Best practice question

Dear all,
With no formal training on the topic of EPMA but with the experience of using it together with Planning, I'm aware that deployment in EPMA is destructive for any content created manually in the Essbase application under it.
e.g. when doing a full deployment all manually added calculation scripts will be erased.
I have following questions about the Essbase EPMA applications:
Is Essbase deployment similar destructive as with EPMA Planning?
Must all application content also reside in both EPMA and calculation manager? Is it possible to only use EPMA to control master data and do all other actions in Essbase?
I see a real added value of using EPMA for a client of mine but if I (fear that I) might need to tell them to migrate all their scripts from Essbase administration console to Calculation manager. As such, it will be hard to find the added value of the switch for them.
What about Essbase studio? I'm not aware of any need for Essbase studio in the context of a Planning EPMA implementation, but what about Essbase EPMA? Is this a must-do, adviced or just nice to have?
Very much appreciate any advice in this context.
Erik
Belgium

It depends what you mean by destructive, if you mean does it suffer from the same sort of problems then yes, personally I find it difficult to understand the benefits of moving away from a classic way of maintaining essbase applications to an EPMA managed world, just my opinion.
You should be able to see use calc scripts in the same way as before and the same goes for other functionality.
Essbase Studio is required as EPMA uses some of the codeline to deploy the applications to Essbase.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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